State v. Watson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that limiting instruction did not cure error when evidence should not have been admitted even for limited purpose
• explaining that if a character witness testifies about the defendant's good character for a relevant trait, the State may offer evidence to establish the defendant's bad character for that same trait
• explaining that if a character witness testifies about the defendant’s good character for a relevant trait, the State may offer evidence to establish the defendant’s bad character for that same trait
• explaining that if a character witness testifies about the defendant’s good character for a relevant trait, the State may offer evidence to establish the defendant’s bad character for that same trait

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Crane v. Dunn
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-07-26· cited 51×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-06-28· cited 45×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-03-09· cited 26×
• Bradley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-02-08· cited 17×
• Giddens v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-04· cited 11×
• Hopkins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-05· cited 4×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-30· cited 4×
• Sahin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-02-08· cited 4×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-07-08· cited 3×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2018-01-19